Allergic Rhinitis & Environmental Pollution & Food Addtives

Question: Among the other types of hard to treat rhinitis,

why allergic rhinitis is much harder to treat?

 

hello, a few days ago, I received a question from a patients asking why allergic rhinitis

is more difficult to treat? Let me tell you why.

 

 

Both are characteristically similar, having inflamed mucous membranes in the nasal cavity. However, there are few fundamental differences.

 

 

Rhinitis is caused by infection causing airborne pathogens; they infiltrate into the nasal mucosa, inducing inflammation. However, allergic rhinitis is an antigen-antibody reaction; latent inflammation factors in the bloodstream break out when the outer condition is favorable, provoking instant inflammation.

 

In other words, the cause of rhinitis lies outside the body, whereas the cause of allergic rhinitis can be found inside the body.

 

 

 

 

 

The common cold related rhinitis is easily treatable, therefore, it hardly hinders quality of life until another bout of cold comes along.

 

However, allergic rhinitis negatively affects every living moment of sufferers' lives,

from dawn to dusk. Medications provide only temporary relief.

 

 So the misery repeats itself day after day. To put it simply, other typical rhinitis is maybe a one off, whereas allergic rhinitis is very repetitive in nature.

 

Besides, while the direct impact of typical rhinitis remains at the nose only, the itchiness caused by allergic rhinitis reaches far beyond the nose: the eyes (caused by conjunctivitis), throat, ear canal, anus, and even the nipples; the inflamed tissues are similar in nature. Therefore, rhinitis is a local disease confined to the nasal mucous membranes and allergic rhinitis is a systematic disease.

 

Accordingly, treatments vary with the type. Rhinitis improves by receiving treatments alone, however, improving allergic rhinitis is based on patients' own efforts, additional to the therapy they receive. That is the major difference between treating the two types.

 

It is only sensible to say rhinitis only requires therapy, but allergic rhinitis requires the change in physical constitution.

 

 

Modern medicine named the allergic disease causing substances, endocrine disruptors. Those can be found in food additives and chemicals in food. Not only instant foods, animal source foods are also inadequate to produce clean and healthy blood. Needless to say again, "brown rice and vegetables are the solutions to all allergic rhinitis." Upon changing water, food and air intake, the blood becomes clean. Subsequently, clean blood makes diseases disappear.

 

 

If you wish to know more about allergic rhinitis, please go to www.amazon.com

and buy the recent book of 25 years of experience as an e-n-t doctor.

 

 

 

The Sinus School contains a lot of information on every kind of nasal disease and treatment methods I collected for 25 years of experience.

 

 

 

Treating Allergic Rhinitis with Brown Rice and Vegetarian Diet

Believe it or now I figured out vegetarian diet would be of great help on treating

allergic rhinitis. Many of may patients who suffer from rhinitis are the result of

environmental pollution. When I was growing up, I could not see many patients with

rhinitis or sinusitis. At that time, the environment was clean. It was not like this todady.

 

The human body and environment are deeply correlated. The human body is also part of nature.

Thus, if you strengthen your immune system, the entire body gets better on the whole.

I recommend you take brown rice and vegetarian diet if you wish to treat your allergic rhinitis. = )

When rhinitis is associated with hypersensitive reaction, it is called, allergic rhinitis.
Although it is treatable with pricking therapy on the nasal cavity, the disorder is a systematic disease. Accordingly, good nutrition plays a major role in improving physical constitution and cleaning the blood, hence it is worthwhile to reiterate the importance of meals consist of brown rice and vegetarian dishes. 

 

Allergic diseases mostly arise from endocrine disruptor, an allergy causing substance which acts as an antigen, absolved by food intakes. Over 20 years of clinical experience, I have become a specialist in treating rhinitis and sinusitis. Treating allergic rhinitis, however, is a major headache, and it is inevitable part of treating nasal disorders. Not just limiting to allergic rhinitis, atopic diseases, allergic dermatitis, is a big concern shared by the whole nation.

 

Drug therapy alone, no matter how much efforts were put into, found to be inadequate. A piece of wisdom I gained from treating and researching many years is rather simple, "changing the physical constitution is the key."

 

Among the other types of hard to treat rhinitis, why allergic rhinitis is much harder to treat?

 

 

Both are characteristically similar, having inflamed mucous membranes in the nasal cavity. However, there are few fundamental differences.

 

Rhinitis is caused by infection causing airborne pathogens; they infiltrate into the nasal mucosa, inducing inflammation. However, allergic rhinitis is an antigen-antibody reaction; latent inflammation factors in the bloodstream break out when the outer condition is favorable, provoking instant inflammation. In other words, the cause of rhinitis lies outside the body, whereas the cause of allergic rhinitis can be found inside the body.

 

The common cold related rhinitis is easily treatable, therefore, it hardly hinders quality of life until another bout of cold comes along. However, allergic rhinitis negatively affects every living moment of sufferers' lives, from dawn to dusk. Medications provide only temporary relief. So the misery repeats itself day after day. To put it simply, other typical rhinitis is maybe a one off, whereas allergic rhinitis is very repetitive in nature.

 

Besides, while the direct impact of typical rhinitis remains at the nose only, the itchiness caused by allergic rhinitis reaches far beyond the nose: the eyes (caused by conjunctivitis), throat, ear canal, anus, and even the nipples; the inflamed tissues are similar in nature. Therefore, rhinitis is a local disease confined to the nasal mucous membranes and allergic rhinitis is a systematic disease.

 

Accordingly, treatments vary with the type. Rhinitis improves by receiving treatments alone, however, improving allergic rhinitis is based on patients' own efforts, additional to the therapy they receive. That is the major difference between treating the two types.

 

It is only sensible to say rhinitis only requires therapy, but allergic rhinitis requires the change in physical constitution.

Then, how can it be done? What does it really mean, changing physical constitution? How innate physical constitution can be altered?

 

In order to sustain life from the cradle to the grave, there needs to be intake of substances; those are water, air and food. What has already been inside cannot be changed, but people can change what they consume from the outside to maintain their lives. This means what people can actively change what to bring into the body from the outside; choosing the things that are clean and pure over contaminated or polluted.

 

The blood has an irreplaceable role in our bodily functions and it must be noticed the blood is formulated by the water, air and food we supply from the outside.

 

We certainly were not born with substances that cause rhinitis. Then it must have been originated from the outside and infiltrated into the body. The source of supply is processed to formulate the blood, then through it, the body shows the symptoms.

 

Therefore, changing the physical constitution equates to changing the source of supply. This can be further translated into changing the blood by changing its source. Simply stating, it is changing the blood that contains allergic rhinitis causing constituents with the blood that is free from them. "Changing the blood, changes the physical constitution," is the simple summary.

 

So what is the next step? Clean water and fresh air are crucial, yet food holds greater importance. This is why I highly recommend diet consists of brown rice and vegetables.

 

Modern medicine named the allergic disease causing substances, endocrine disruptors. Those can be found in food additives and chemicals in food. Not only instant foods, animal source foods are also inadequate to produce clean and healthy blood. Needless to say again, "brown rice and vegetables are the solutions to all allergic rhinitis." Upon changing water, food and air intake, the blood becomes clean. Subsequently, clean blood makes diseases disappear.

 

If you want to know more about sinusitis and rhinitis, come to sinus school.

You can meet me through the book, the sinus school which is available on

www.amazon.com

 

 

The benefits of treating rhinitis with acupuncture

Acupuncuture Therapy on Rhinitis

 

 

 

 

 

 

<CEO of Cosoom Networks, OMD, Woojeong Lee>

 

 

The benefits of treating rhinitis with acupuncture  

 

Patients are able to sufficiently express their opinions: They can express their discomfort and condition in detail.

 

Sufficient doctor-patient communication can be facilitated: Doctors can fully apprehend the discomfort experienced by their patients and adequately implements the treatment progress as they communicate each other.   

 

Surgeries cause irreversible structural damages, whereas acupuncture has no such complications.

 

While invasive treatments are not free from the burden to treat the target diseases all at once, acupuncture treatments can be repeatable.

 

In the spectrum of treating rhinitis, acupuncture provides more detailed, safe and infallible care than surgeries.

 

 

 

 

Treating Rhinitis - blood pricking therapy on the nasal cavity

Hello, I am Dr. Lee from Sinus School.

Do you enjoy your time at the school? Hope you do so.

Today let me tell you how to treat rhinitis through

Blood pricking therapy.

 

 

<CEO of Cossoom Networks, Dr. Lee Woo Jeong>

 

 

Treating Rhinitis- Blood-pricking Therapy

on the Nasal Cavity

 

Sinus cold includes the symptoms of inflamed nasal mucosa causing nasal congestion with extra secretion as big as the membrane inflamed. As a broken faucet, nasal discharge continues. The inflamed membrane becomes susceptible to the slightest stimulation, inducing sneezing. The color of the discharge changes from clear to yellow, indicating the progress of the severity of rhinitis. When the body's immune system runs at its optimal level, resting a few days restores the nose to its normal level and the body aches from a cold will go away. In other cases, the symptoms prolong and the nasal conditions would worsen.

 

 

 

 

Considering the circumstances, taking a few days of rest and get healed by itself would be the most desirable outcome. Irrespective of using oriental or western medicine, enjoying the desired recovery without discomfort is also ideal.

 

Reluctantly, repeated sinus colds decrease the efficacy of medications and increases the duration of the treatment. Sufferers often say, "It only took a few days to get healed with taking medications until last year, but they are no use this year."

 

I can confidently say with over 20 years of clinical experience of treating all types of rhinitis including, acute and chronic rhinitis; hypertrophic and atrophic rhinitis; pricking the nasal mucous membranes is the most effective way of treating the affected nasal mucosa.

 

Its sponge-like tissues are prone to become inflamed with a slight stimulation. The membrane lining of the nose secrets mucus ceaselessly for the entire life and it can easily swell up than any other tissues in the body. For that reason, infection induces swelling to constrict the nostrils.

 

Although it is preferable to not to catch a sinus cold in the first place, but once contracted, it is at best to reduce the swelling of the membranes as soon as possible to retain its elasticity. The most effective and assuring treatment method is applying the blood-pricking therapy (or needle-pricking) on the nasal mucosa.

 

Prolonged inflammation undermines elasticity of the membranes, which in turn, leads to delay in recovery. Accordingly, acupuncture is recommended for both acute and chronic rhinitis. Even in an improving condition, using medications in conjunction with acupuncture further benefits to ensure complete healing.

 

In both types of rhinitis, blood-pricking therapy is the fastest way to reduce the swelling and the only fundamental approach to resolve blood stasis caused by repeated infections of the nasal mucous membranes. This applies to other tissues as well; it provides an effective relief to where affected by repeated infections and frequent overuse.

 

With utmost confidence, this is an extraordinary therapy which effectively restores the ventilation of the nasal passages and strengthens the nasal mucosa.

 

 

 

 

 

Treatment Case 1

 

· There was a lady patient who traveled an hour and a half to receive treatments. She underwent a surgery to treat persistent nasal congestion. Although the surgery served its intended purpose, she started to suffer from intense headaches and runny nose with yellow purulent exudate, associated with frequent head colds that she caught every time she went outside. She had to take a week worth of prescribed regimen of drug therapy to treat the condition. Eventually, she came to see me after she was diagnosed with sinusitis and was recommended for another operation. She was afraid to undergo another surgery and had no other choice but to avoid going outside for 3 years.

 

She became bedridden after her initial visit. The symptoms became even more severe when she went outside, due to treated nasal mucosa. After she barely recovered from it, she came back for another procedure and she fell ill for days. She suffered after each treatment for the first ten treatments.

One day, she asked me a serious question,

"Dr. Lee, by all means, I may need to do another surgery. I am now required to wear a protective mask that looks like a gas mask when I even go to a grocery store. I found it unbearable. I cannot even go out to meet my friends. The cost I have to bear is too much every time I go out. It may be difficult to be treated with oriental medicine. Perhaps, another surgery provides some relief. Should I go for it?"

Her statement much troubled me. Repeated procedures had not yielded improvement but suffering remained. However, her symptoms do not represent accurate indicants for the operation. She had to blow her nose constantly to remove yellow discharge; this may match the classical symptom of sinusitis. However, taking medicines alleviated her symptoms from time to time, indicating her sinusitis condition was not constant. Suctioning the paranasal sinuses did not indicate the presence of infected fluid. It seemed her condition was contributed from compromised immune system of the nasal mucosa, unable to handle the polluted air in Seoul. I earnestly begged her to reconsider and not to lose hope.

 

After turning the pages, the therapy made a great progress; a 3-hour round-trip daily commute to the clinic and home did not cause her to catch a cold. She finished her treatment in about 20 visits to the clinic. Not so long after, I received a heartfelt New Year's card. She expressed her gratitude in the card that I dissuaded her from taking the surgical options. For an entire year after the treatment, she caught a cold once, but it was nothing. She became able to enjoy activities that had been previously kept from doing because of her condition. = )

 If you wish to know more on sinus and rhinitis, you can
look up my recent book, Sinuse School, available on www.amazon.com

 

Dr. Lee's Sinus School: Life in Eco-Village

Dr. Lee's Sinus School

Today let me tell you a bit different story from my medical life.
You know I live in an eco-village. It's been 6 years since I left Seoul, the biggest city
in Korea. I guess it must be one of the top buisest cities in the world as well.

Spring has come. It is so beautiful and people are busy with farming.

 
Village people are fertilizing the ground.

 
His name is Mr. Jeong. He helps us farming a lot.
This year, we are going to do permaculture.
 

Now we are finally watering the fields. The man who is watering
looking at the camera is Mr. Kim. He is a teacher ( we call him guidance) at the school
located in the village. It's an alternative school built by village people.

If you wish to know more about the village and meditation, please visit
www.suseonjae.com

 
 
 
 

Dry Eye Syndrome: Treat Your Sinus, the answer is there

 

Dr. Lee's Sinus School

Hi I am Dr. Lee Woojeong. I have been treating nasal problems through Korean medicine for
25 years. As we work indoors, many people suffer from dry eye syndrome.

As a matter of fact, this is your sinus problem, not your eyes.

Dry Eye Syndrome: The Problem is your sinus.

DES is a condition caused by a lack of moisture on the surface of the eye.

The cause of the dryness is the heat that dissipates moisture from the eye.

The heat evaporates the tear that lubricates the oscular surface.

When there are not enough tears, the eye becomes dry and cause redness and feeling gritty.

In worsened state, the eyestrain becomes constant whether the eyes are opened or closed. Sleep may bring temporary relief to the condition, but the eye fatigue returns soon.

 

The retina constitutes over 100 million light detective cells

 and 1 million optic nerve cells clustered, processing the most amount of information per area

 in the body, consequently, it generates the most amount of heat. The heat can be taken away

by blood circulation, however, that is not enough in most cases.

 To cope with this, the eyes are attached to a customized cooling device for the eyes.

 

The nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses function

 as an anti-overheating device for the eyes.

If eye strain is present, caused by DES, then it must

 observe whether there is sufficient ventilation in the cavity and sinuses.

Once clear ventilation is restored in those areas, even serious cases

of DES experience significant improvement.

 

Clinical experience reveals preadolescent

children who suffer from sinusitis rarely complain

of DES. It suggests the blood circulation of children

is without impedance. However, when the demand on the eyes

 becomes increased (like when students prepare for college entrance exam),

people start to experience eye strain and dryness.

This is due by the heat generated by the eyes exceeded

the amount of heat that blood circulation able to dissipate.

 

The cause of DES has been explained as lack of

fluid supplied to the cornea or change in the constituents

of tear, however, it would be more appropriate to

define it as evaporation of tear caused by excessive heat in the retina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Dr. Lee (CEO of Cosoom Networks Clinic)

 

 

If you wish to know more about your sinus, you can read my recent

book "the sinus school"

This is available on www.amazon.com